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Chapter: Performance and profiling
Lecture: Our intuition often fails us for performance
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As we get into this profiling topic, I want to really drive homeless idea that guessing and using your intuition for what part
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of your program is slow and what part is fast? It often fails us. In more than one time in my career.
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I've been working on some code and some program and it's really slow and like, wow, this is the little section I need to focus on because I'm sure this
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looks complicated. Seems like it's doing a lot. This must be the problem. And it turns out that was only 5% of the
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time. There was some other section I didn't even come aware of that was 95% of the time. And if I could have completely erased all the time spent on
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where I thought it was slow, it would have only made it 5% faster. It still would have been basically slow.
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So what we're going to learn in this chapter is how do we measure? We measure what our program is doing and where is spending its time.
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And then we can go with that more accurate information, dive in and start using our programming experience to make that bit of code faster.
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So before you just dive in and try to make something fast and optimize it and make it potentially complicated, remember measure and then work on it.